Dáil Éireann Debate, Wednesday - 3 December 2014
69. Deputy Éamon Ó Cuív asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the payment to date that has issued under the agri-environment option scheme 1 in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Galway; if the person is eligible to receive the maximum payment under this scheme; the reason the person is ineligible to receive the maximum payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46437/14]
View answerThe person named was approved for participation in the 2010 Agri-Environment Options Scheme (AEOS 1) with effect from the 1st November 2010 and full entitlements have issued in respect of the 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2013 Scheme years. A 1% penalty of €9.49 was imposed in 2011 for the late submission of the Single Payment Application. AEOS is not a whole farm scheme and payment is based on the actions selected as submitted in the application form, which in the case of the person named had a total monetary value of €949.75 per annum. The actions selected were: Natura Commonage, 8.5 hectares payable @ €75 per ha equal to €637.50; Traditional Stone Wall Maintenance, 356 metres payable @ €0.50 per metre, equal to €178; and Non-Natura Commonage, 1.79 hectares payable @ €75 per hectare, equal to €134.25.
